Slumber-robe.



G. T|LDEN-' I SLUMBER ROBE. APPLICATION FILED 001.20. I915.

Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

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SLUMBER-BOBE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 191?.

Application filed Gctoner 20, 1915. Serial N 0. 56,864.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GALEN TILDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ames, county of Story, and State oflowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Slumber-Robes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a slumber robe, or sleeping blanket, adapted to be wrapped around the person using same in such a manner that it covers his complete body to the neck and in being further wound around the body the blanket passes under the arms, the effect of said robe or blanket, being such that it practically constitutes same a sleeping bag. A further object is to provide orifices in the blanket through which the arms of the person pass so that the first part of the blanket wraps around the body, the arms protruding therethrough and the balance of the blanket passing under the arms, thus leaving the arms of the person free for movement.

A. further object is to provide my improved blanket, or robe, with a coverlet which is attached immediately above the arm holes so that when the blanket is wrapped around the person and the arms protrude therethrough the coverlet will extend over the arms and protect them.

My device is principally adapted for infants but may be used with an equal degree of success for people of any age.

My invention consists of certain details of construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows an infant completely wrapped up in my improved blanket;

Fig. 2 shows an infant with my blanket Wrapped there-around, the arms being free, and

Fig. 3 shows a front elevation view of my blanket.

Referring to the accompanying draw ngs, the reference numeral 10 is used to indicate the blanket and the numeral 11 the upper edge thereof, said edge being cut downwardly near its central portion, as shown at 12, for some little distance and thence continuing outwardly on a parallel plane wlth the lower edge. I have provided two openings, l3 and 14., near the top of my blanket, and in the wide portion thereof, said'openings being designed to receive the arms of the person around whom. the blanket is wrapped, thereby permitting the arms to protrude through the blanket. The numeral 15 indicates a coverlet which is secured to the blanket above the aforesaid openings, and is designed to extend downwardly over the openings, as shown, for the purpose of covering the shoulders and upper arms of the person around whom the blanket is wrapped. This coverlet is such that it still permits the free use of the arms for, obviously, it is flexible, and yet when the arms are both alongside the body the coverlet Will assume its proper position covering the shoulders and upper part of the arms.

The practical operation of my blanket is very simple and explanation is probably unnecessary except to say that in wrapping a person in the blanket the arms are first thrust through the openin 's, the upper part of the blanket at this p ace covering the shoulders and neck. The blanket is then wound around the person, the cutaway portion of the blanket winding under the arms of the person, the lower edge of the blanket being on an even plane with each winding thereof.

In the drawing I have elected to show (by the dotted lines in Fig. 3) elliptical openings for the arms but it is very obvious that a slit in this flexible material would answer the purpose just as well and I therefore do not wish to be limited to any particular kind of opening to receive the'arms.

As shown in Fig. 1 the coverlet 15 is arranged outside of the blanket so as to cover the wearers arms, and as shown in Fig. 2, the coverlet is arranged inside, accomplished by reversing the blanket, so as to leave the wearers arms free.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A slumber robe composed of an ordinary blanket. having spaced arm holes at one side thereof and adjacent-its long top edge and having said top edge at the opposite side thereof cut inwardly and extended ontpassed through the holes from either side of wardly to lie parallel to the bottom to allow the blanket.

said opposite side of the blanket to be 4 I 4 wrapped around the wearers body below GALEN TILDEN the arm pits, and a coverlet connected to the lVitnesses:

blanket so as to extend over the arm holes T. H. CABLE, and to allow the arms of the wearer to be ZELL G. R012.

@opien of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." 

